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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

(nee.lv)
3883 points kuroguro | 5 comments | 28 Feb 21 19:38 UTC | HN request time: 1.076s | source
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josalhor ◴[28 Feb 21 21:24 UTC] No.26297195[source]▶
I have a friend who works at Rockstar. I have forwarded the blog post to him.
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marshmallow_12 ◴[01 Mar 21 00:43 UTC] No.26298561[source]▶
ask him from me what on earth is wrong with R*
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xdrosenheim ◴[01 Mar 21 01:13 UTC] No.26298747[source]▶
Short answer: it doesn't make enough money, it doesn't matter.
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1. GhostVII ◴[01 Mar 21 02:46 UTC] No.26299197[source]▶
GTA V has made 6 billion in revenue, it's probably the most profitable video game in history by a large margin.
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2. jojobas ◴[01 Mar 21 03:35 UTC] No.26299449[source]▶
GTA V is profitable, fixing bugs is not.
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3. lhl ◴[01 Mar 21 06:03 UTC] No.26300137[source]▶
You could easily model how increased retention/engagement rates would translate to increased microtransaction revenue from drastically decreased load times. You could even bucket test it if you wanted to directly quantify the results, but I'm sure that the cost payback would be a matter of days.
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4. josalhor ◴[01 Mar 21 12:16 UTC] No.26302018[source]▶
Fixing bugs that reduce engagement is profitable. I am pretty confident this kind of bug has easily costed Rockstar in the order of 10-100 million dollars _per year_.
5. marshmallow_12 ◴[01 Mar 21 16:38 UTC] No.26304584{3}[source]▶
but why bother when you got so much money anyway? It's shockingly lazy, but are you as productive as you can be? They're no different.